People celebrated winter solstice by traveling around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People celebrated winter solstice on the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage’s Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024.
About 40 decorated trees were on display this year. “The event was born to get more people out on the trails because we have an amazing resource out here,” said NSAA board member Sara Miller. “We started out with about 20 trees and it’s grown every year and it always blows my mind that thousands of people come out to celebrate winter and being outside.”
Nadia Sofron, 5, and her brother Tim Sofron, 9, go through a light tunnel as people celebrated Winter Solstice by traveling around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People celebrated Winter Solstice by traveling around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People celebrated Winter Solstice by traveling around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
Dentist Clark Bassham of Alaska Premier Dental Group puts free tooth brushes on a tree during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People walk past the Friends of the Library light display while going around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
Hazel Evans, 4, crawls through a light tunnel as people celebrated Winter Solstice by traveling around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People celebrated Winter Solstice by traveling around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
Designer Naomi Hess with KPB Architects decorates a tree during the Solstice Tree Tour at Kincaid Park on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People roast marshmallows over a warming barrel during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour at Kincaid Park on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People celebrated Winter Solstice by traveling around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People celebrated Winter Solstice by traveling around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People celebrated Winter Solstice by traveling around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop at Kincaid Park during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People walk back towards the Kincaid Stadium after traveling around the 2.5-kilometer Mize Loop during the Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage's Solstice Tree Tour on Sunday. (Bill Roth / ADN)
People got free rides in a snow groomer as snowmaking operations were underway in the Kincaid Stadium on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. Kincaid will host the U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships in January. (Bill Roth / ADN)
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